The Thrikkakara constabulary person booked a antheral for allegedly duping a pistillate of implicit ₹10 lakh aft befriending her done societal media. The constabulary connected Friday (September 19, 2025) registered a archetypal accusation study (FIR) against Morgan Kelvin Alen of Kakkanad based connected a ailment filed by a 59-year-old pistillate from Vazhakkala successful Kochi, Kerala.
According to the police, the accused contacted the pistillate done societal media, claiming to beryllium from the UK. He allegedly cheated the pistillate by convincing her that helium had sent her a astonishment acquisition and it was intercepted by the Customs astatine the Delhi airdrome arsenic the bundle contained items, including gold, physics gadgets and British currency.
The antheral told the complainant that a lawsuit would beryllium registered against her if she did not wage the customs work connected the items addressed to her. Panicked, the complainant transferred ₹10,78,000 from her slope relationship to antithetic accounts betwixt July 27, 2025 and August 15, 2025. The pistillate approached the constabulary connected September 19, 2025 aft realising that she was cheated.
The constabulary said they person started a probe and person to verify the transactions done which the complainant mislaid the money.
“The modus operandi of the accused is simply a instrumentality played by cyber fraudsters. The incidental highlights the request to make much consciousness among susceptible groups,” a constabulary serviceman said.
